Books in the Change & Continuity in Africa series

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Local background -- 3. Occupational expectation and adjustment -- 4. Social expectation and adjustment -- 5. Inner estrangement and adjustment -- 6. Education and local development -- Summary -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Index of sixteen cases

Frontmatter -- FOREWORD -- Preface -- Table of contents -- Part 1. Theory and methodology -- 1 Social network: Its use as a conceptual framework in family analysis -- 2 Networks, norms and institutions -- 3 Network analysis and social theory Some remarks -- 4 Some applications of the notion of density to network analysis -- Part 2. Networks compared -- 5 Network density among urban families -- 6 Social network and conjugal role in urban Zambia: Towards a reformulation of the Bott hypothesis -- 7 Two types of partial networks in Burundi -- 8 An exploration of two first-order zones -- Part 3. Network and coalitions -- 9 Coalitions in Sicilian peasant society -- 10 Politics on the village level -- 11 Coalitions and network analysis -- Bibliography -- Biographical data of authors -- Subject index

Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contents -- List of figures and plates -- Introduction -- 1. The context of Wagenia initiation -- 2. Four aspects of Wagenia initiation -- 3. The departure -- 4. Circumcision and the reception in camp -- 5. The camp period -- 6. The return -- 7. Transitional symbols -- 8. Structuring and restructuring -- Appendices -- List of Kigenia words -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of contents -- List of tables, figures and plates -- Abbreviations -- 1. MIGRATION AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF ETHNIC COMMUNITIES -- 2. THE EMERGENCE OF ETHNIC COMMUNITIES AND HEADSHIP (1800-1918) -- 3. HEADMEN AS ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL INTERMEDIARIES DURING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY -- 4. ETHNICITY, ISLAM, AND HEADSHIP DURING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY -- 5. THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF HEADSHIP -- 6. THE SURVIVAL OF HEADSHIP (1905-1961) -- 7. THE COURTS OF THE TRIBAL HEADMEN -- 8. DEVELOPMENTS IN THE INSTITUTION OF TRIBAL HEADMEN (1961-1976) -- 9 . HEADSHIP AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF FREETOWN -- APPENDIX A: HOUSEHOLD DESCRIPTIONS AND A NEIGHBOURHOOD STUDY - FREETOWN -- APPENDIX B: ALIEN MAHOMMEDANS - DUTIES OF ALMAMIES -- APPENDIX C: TRIBAL ADMINISTRATION (FREETOWN). NO. 19 OF 1905 -- APPENDIX D: AN ORDINANCE TO EXTEND THE PROVISIONS OF 'THE TRIBAL ADMINISTRATION (FREETOWN) ORDINANCE, 1905'. NO. 27 OF 1906 -- APPENDIX E: TRIBAL ADMINISTRATION (FREETOWN) (SERRAKULI, BAMBARA, AND WASOLOO) NO. 8 OF 1918 -- APPENDIX F: RULES MADE BY THE TRIBAL RULER OF THE FOULAH TRIBE RESIDENT IN FREETOWN, ACTING WITH THE HEADMEN OF SUCH TRIBE, UNDER SECTION FOUR OF THE TRIBAL ADMINISTRATION (COLONY) ORDINANCE, 1924 -- APPENDIX G: TRIBAL ADMINISTRATION (COLONY) NO. 48 OF 1932: AN ORDINANCE TO PROMOTE A SYSTEM OF ADMINISTRATION BY TRIBAL AUTHORITY AMONG THE TRIBES SETTLED IN FREETOWN AND IN OTHER PLACES WITHIN THE COLONY -- APPENDIX H: REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE APPOINTED TO EXAMINE THE WORKING OF THE TRIBAL ADMINISTRATION (COLONY) ORDINANCE, CAP. 244. FREETOWN 1955 -- APPENDIX I: FREETOWN HEADMEN - NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES -- References -- Index

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of contents -- 1. Introduction / Roberts, Simon -- 2. Establishing paternity and demanding child support in a Ghanaian town / Lowy, Michael J. -- 3. Law in the context of Nkoya society / Binsbergen, Wim M.J. van -- 4. Family dispute settlement and the Zambian judiciary: local-level legal adaptation / Canter, Richard S. -- 5. To claim or not to claim: changing views about the restitution of marriage prestations among the Anufom in Northern Togo / Nieuwaal, Els Van / Rouveroy, Emile Van -- 6. Judicial manipulation of customary family law in Tanzania / Sawyerr, Akilagpa -- 8. Problems of creation and dissolution of customary marriages in Nigeria / Achike, Okay -- 9. The effect of marriage on the status of children in Ghana / Daniels, W.C. Ekow -- 10. The choice of law dilemma in Lesotho: some criteria for decision making in family law / Poulter, Sebastian -- 11. Marriage in Kwahu, Ghana / Bleek, Wolf -- 12. The emergence of the 'stranger-permit marriage' and other new forms of conjugal union in rural Sierra Leone / Harrell-Bond, Barbara E. / Rijnsdorp, Ulrica -- 13. Nullity of marriage and divorce: relevance of a western distinction to modern African law / Pauwels, Johan -- 14. The Kgatla marriage: concepts of validity / Roberts, Simon -- Bibliography

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Table of contents -- List of tables -- List of maps -- List of abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Families -- 3. Communities -- 4. The wider society -- 5. Political role differentation -- 6. Religious innovation and political action -- 7. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index